Jack Matthews vs. Robert Coover

Here’s a small letter to the editor by Jack Matthews which New York Times Book Review published in 1992:

“To the Editor: Your hypotext on hypertext writ by Robert Coover is hyperbole in hypolex, though Coover’s sure a groover. What gurus of the new can’t see is how new fads betray us, for when you hustle entropy your progeny is chaos.

JACK MATTHEWS Athens, Ohio

Once, in an interviews Matthews confessed, “I’m still getting used to electric lights.”